fta:We refuse to allow animals to suffer yet we are committed to making sure people die naturally no matter how much misery they must endure.

often, the person is kept alive unnaturally.

/ I have no problem with assisted suicide. I believe it may have been done for my grandfather. basically, the doctor or nurse asked do you want more morphin until, it was, do you really want more morphin? cut his life short by maybe 10 hours of immeasurably suffering.

A culture truly shows that it has no respect for human life when it stops forcing terminally ill individuals with no hope of recovery to prolong an existence of suffering with no quality of life for as long as is medically possible.

F*ck yeah, headed to Taos around Spring Break for some snow. It's frikkin' gorgeous.I'd really like to run the Taos Box, tho, that river is awesome.

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Ain't much snow up in The Valley this year, according to my family out there. Maybe they're making some. Not sure about Anglefire, but I imagine it's similarly warm and dry.

But if you go, try the green chili at the Taos Inn, and have a burger at Five Star. The Ally Cantina is a good place for a blackout drinking session, and last time I was there they had a couple pool tables and a shuffleboard table.

I usually head out there in the late summer / early fall. Better weather, also chili season.

gilatrout:r1niceboy: New Mexico is indeed pretty, and if you're lucky, you'll live somewhere there with a good view and far enough away from everyone else in the state that you don't have to interact them.

The land is very beautiful, Albuquerque is fun to visit, Santa Fe is artsy, Taos has its Earthships...but people who actually live in New Mexico tell me there is a lot of despair outside of those privileged places.

The land is very beautiful, Albuquerque is fun to visit, Santa Fe is artsy, Taos has its Earthships...but people who actually live in New Mexico tell me there is a lot of despair outside of those privileged places.

Yep. Especially around Santa Fe. You drive into Espanola, and it's Third World shiate.

Rights don't work like that. Rights come from your own efforts. If somebody else is obligated to cooperate or provide assistance, then that thing isn't a right, it's a privilege.

It's not a matter of semantics. You don't have the right to levitate. You don't have the right to do anything that you cannot achieve. At best, you have the right to attempt the impossble, but not the right to do the impossible.

The land is very beautiful, Albuquerque is fun to visit, Santa Fe is artsy, Taos has its Earthships...but people who actually live in New Mexico tell me there is a lot of despair outside of those privileged places.

Mmmm, I love New Mexico. We spent our 20th anniversary in the Earthships. Met so many wonderful people in Taos. Previously I had visited Santa Fe and toured that part of the state staying in everything from cabins in the mountains to youth hostels. I would love to live there, but it's too far away from our families, so I have to be content visiting whenever I can.

wruley:We honeymooned in Taos and liked it so much we decided to relocate to Albuquerque. We survived for 18 months before we decided NM was not the place for us.

Great place to visit, horrible place to live...unless you speak Spanish and don't mind a job with no benefits.

THIS!

/ Native New Mexican. I was born here, lived here all my life so far, and will most likely die here from a terminal encounter with a drunk driver.// And frankly, as I get older, the beauty is harder to find, and what little there is fails to offset the rampant drugs, the endemic drunks, the pinche corrupt cabrones in the state legislature, and the incredibly farked-up educational system. NM is beginning to spiral the drain these days./// Definitely considering other options in other states.

NMTurtlelady:wruley: We honeymooned in Taos and liked it so much we decided to relocate to Albuquerque. We survived for 18 months before we decided NM was not the place for us.

Great place to visit, horrible place to live...unless you speak Spanish and don't mind a job with no benefits.

THIS!

/ Native New Mexican. I was born here, lived here all my life so far, and will most likely die here from a terminal encounter with a drunk driver.// And frankly, as I get older, the beauty is harder to find, and what little there is fails to offset the rampant drugs, the endemic drunks, the pinche corrupt cabrones in the state legislature, and the incredibly farked-up educational system. NM is beginning to spiral the drain these days./// Definitely considering other options in other states.

Some pretty shiatty planning going on there on several levels of government. A couple decades ago I was seriously considering leaving Canada for New Mexico for a hospital job. I could never get over the drop dead amazing scenery. It's a goddamned shame what happened to the state.